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Trump entitled on behalf of millions of voters to dispute the election: Analyst

Tuesday, 17 November 2020 2:31 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 17 November 2020 3:02 PM ]

US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump is entitled on behalf of tens of millions of Americans “who voted for him to dispute the election, especially when there is obvious evidence of fraud,” according to a former American Senate foreign policy analyst says.

James Jatras, a former Senate foreign policy adviser in Washington, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday former US President Barack Obama said that it is "absolutely" time for Trump to concede the disputed November 3 presidential election.

Obama said in an interview on Sunday night that his advice to his successor is to "think beyond your own ego" in order to "be remembered as somebody who put country first."

“A president is a public servant. They are temporary occupants of the office, by design,” Obama said told CBS. “And when your time is up, then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests, and your own disappointments.”

“My advice to President Trump is, if you want at this late stage in the game to be remembered as somebody who put country first, it’s time for you to do the same thing,” Obama continued.

Obama to Trump: 'Think beyond your own ego,' and concede disputed election

Barack Obama says it is "absolutely" time for President Donald Trump to concede the disputed November 3 presidential election.

“I think Mr. Obama must be totally lacking in irony to lecture anybody else about ego. I am not saying that Trump doesn’t have an ego. But if there’s a self-indulgent, self-worshipper anywhere in America, it’s Barack Obama and his image of himself as some kind of a great, historic figure,” Jatras said.

“Clearly Mr. Trump is entitled on behalf of tens of millions of people who voted for him to dispute the election, especially when there is obvious evidence of fraud. And for Mr. Obama to tell him not to do that is not only wrong, but to attribute it to ego is more of a reflection on Mr. Obama than Mr. Trump,” he stated.

A growing number of Republicans have also called on Trump to begin the transition of Biden.

But Trump has refused to concede defeat in the disputed election and legally challenged the results in favor of the former vice president in some key states.

He has claimed that widespread voter fraud has occurred in key battleground states to rob him of his reelection.

The Trump campaign has mounted multiple legal challenges in an effort to reverse the outcome of the election. Attempts in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania have already been either dropped or denied.

Several of the president’s advisers told him on Wednesday that his chances of succeeding in courts were extremely low.

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